GM Alexandra Kosteniuk and IM Polina Shuvalova have advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2025 Women's Speed Chess Championship. While Kosteniuk was clearly too strong for IM Carissa Yip (11-4), Shuvalova only narrowly beat IM Meri Arabidze (7-6) i...
Fresh off the back of his sixth Freestyle Friday victory, GM Hikaru Nakamura reclaimed his spot on the Bullet Brawl throne after scoring 56/68 and accruing a total of 180 points on Saturday. Nakamura kicked off the arena with a 30-game unbeat...
GM Vincent Keymer made it 3/3 with another brilliant win, this time over GM Karthikeyan Murali, but he leads the Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2025 by just half a point after GM Arjun Erigaisi eased to victory over GM Ray Robson. It was a day of ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura and Kick are thrilled to present Hikaru's Second Annual Chess 4 The Masses Sponsored by Kick. The event gives players of all levels the chance to win cash prizes—and maybe even see Hikaru commentating on their games! ...
GM Vincent Keymer is the only player on a perfect 2/2 in either section of the Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2025 after winning a wild game with Black against GM Pranav Venkatesh. The other winner was GM Ray Robson, who won a thrilling time ...
Velammal MHS School, from India, won the FIDE World Schools Team Championship 2025 with a perfect 8/8 score. The National School of Physics and Mathematics from Kazakhstan took silver with 6/8, while the Harker School from the U.S. took bronze wit...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won his sixth Freestyle Friday on August 8, now three more than anyone else after 29 editions of the event. This day's top three places were all awarded outright, Nakamura on 10 points, GM Magnus Carlsen on 9.5 points, and GM Ol...
A former chess prodigy from China has been banned for six months after losing 13 consecutive games over two tournaments and dropping 400 Elo points in a year. FIDE has frequently investigated cases of suspected use of computer assistance, ...
Two former WSCC champions advanced comfortably into the Quarterfinals of the 2025 Women's Speed Chess Championship. Women's World Champion (and reigning WSCC Champion) GM Ju Wenjun beat FM Anastasia Avramidou 9.5-4.5, while GM Kateryna Lagno elimi...
OpenAI's o3 took the crown after steamrolling over Grok 4 on the final day of the AI chess exhibition match in Google's Kaggle Game Arena. In the third-place match, Gemini 2.5 Pro defeated o4-mini 3.5-0.5 for the bronze medal. Kaggle Arena Chess...
GM Arjun Erigaisi is Indian number-one and world number-four again after beating GM Awonder Liang in round one of the Masters section of the Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2025. Arjun is joined in the lead by GM Vincent Keymer, who won a time-trou...
Grok 4 and o3 won their semifinal matches against Gemini 2.5 Pro and o4-mini in the AI chess exhibition match in Google's Kaggle Game Arena. While o3's victory was expected, no one could predict the tough battle between Grok and Gemini, which had ...
GM Christopher Yoo has been handed an 18-month suspension from FIDE-rated events after the FIDE Ethics and Disciplinary Commission (EDC) found him guilty of multiple violations, including harassment, psychological abuse, and inappropriate conduct ...
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One country was consistently at the top of Titled Tuesday on August 5 as GMs Amin Tabatabaei, Parham Maghsoodloo, Sina Movahed all scored 10/11 in one of the day's events. The scores were enough for Tabatabaei to win the early event outright and f...
The inaugural day of the AI chess exhibition match in Google's new Kaggle Game Arena project saw dominating performances by four of the Large Language Models (LLMs) on display. Four 4-0 sweeps took Gemini 2.5 Pro, o4-mini, Grok 4, and o3 to the Se...
Get ready to mix up your potions and enchant your opponent with your tactics! The 2025 Chess.com Spell Chess Championship is the next event of the Chess.com Community Championships, starting on August 14. The event will feature a $2,500 prize fund...
World number-one GM Hou Yifan defeated GM Karina Ambartsumova 11-3 in the opening match of the 2025 Women's Speed Chess Championship, followed immediately by IM Alice Lee beating GM Vaishali Rameshbabu 8-6 on the same day. While the first match wa...
A unique and powerful approach to understanding AI capabilities, Kaggle Game Arena, in partnership with Google DeepMind, announced a new platform where leading AI models will compete head-to-head in chess and other games. To kick things off, Kag...
At just 14 years old, GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus has officially broken into the world's top-100 players, a milestone that once again confirms his status as one of the chess world's most exciting prospects. The Turkish prodigy reached a new career-hi...
Chess' answer to DC Comics' "The Flash," GM Andrew Tang, has joined GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Daniel Naroditsky as a top-three all-time Bullet Brawl titlist after winning Saturday's event ahead of 118 titled players. Tang's fast start gave him an ...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen is the first ever Chess Esports World Cup Champion after winning the final three games to beat GM Alireza Firouzja in the Grand Final. Carlsen took the $250,000 top prize and saw his Team Liquid sneak ahead in the o...
GM Vladislav Artemiev, who also participated in the 2025 Esports World Cup this week, has taken home the first Freestyle Friday of August, the fourth straight week where someone won the event for the first time. The tournament still in the balance...
World number-one Magnus Carlsen will take on GM Alireza Firouzja in the 2025 Esports World Cup Grand Final after defeating GM Hikaru Nakamura 4-3 in an epic match decided only in armageddon. Carlsen had earlier defeated GM Nihal Sarin 2.5-0.5, whi...
The focus of this month's article will be on the women's rating list, as the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup brought many changes. GM Divya Deshmukh was the player of the month as she was the first IM to ever win the event and, through it, earn the gr...
